Quidient and Professor Larry Davis of the University of Maryland (UMD) won funding for a research project entitled "Cognitive Inspection of Hail Damaged Automobiles". Most of the $135,000 budgeted for the project is provided by the Maryland Industrial Partnerships (MIPS).

MIPS is a program of the UMD's Maryland Technology Enterprise Institute, or MTECH, whose ten programs share a collective mission to educate the next generation of entrepreneurs, create new technology ventures, and connect Maryland companies with university resources to help them grow.

Larry Davis is a Professor in the Institute for Advanced Computer Studies and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland. His research focuses on object/action recognition and scene analysis, event and modeling recognition, image and video databases, tracking, human movement modeling, 3-D human motion capture, and camera networks. He was the Chair of the University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Science from 1999 to 2012, and is a fellow for both the International Association for Pattern Recognition (2002) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (1998).

Quidient's CEO Scott Ackerson noted, "Dr. Davis is a distinguished researcher at the nexus of 3D imaging and machine learning. We look forward to collaborating with him to advance the state-of-the-art in Cognitive Inspection."